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[004912] . FREEDMEN'S BUREAU. 1866. ill. Tables. 1866. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Disbound. American History. Very Good 39th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 70. Letter from the Secretary of War in Answer to A resolution of the House of March 8, transmitting a report, by the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, of all orders issued by him or any assistant commissioner. 403 pp. Includes 8 "papers": #1. Files of orders and circulars of assistant commissioners; #2. Files of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, War Department; #3. Report of tour of inspection of Kentucky, by Mr. P.Bonesteel; #4. Report of bureau affairs in Edgefield district, South Carolina; #5. Report of General Fisk, relative to Tennessee and Kentucky, and bill relative to negro testimony; #6. Report of General Sprague, relative to Arkansas; #7. Letter of General Tillson, Georgia, concerning Sea Island; and #8. Reports of sub-assistants of affairs in Virginia. Numerous tables, including: 4 page detailed table of medical supplies for refugees and freedmen; Table listing all farms and town lots restored with their estimated value; Table with names of medical officers, hospitals, sick and wounded; and Financial statements of money received and disbursed in the Bureau. Disbound but intact. First page with small blemish/spot at bottom. Partial stamp from House of Representatives along top page ends. Otherwise document is clean and Very Good. Famous Americans in document: Andrew Johnson, President of the United States; Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; Abraham Lincoln; E. Whittlesey, Colonel and Assistant Commissioner; Fred H. Beecher, Liet. and Acting Assistant Adjutant General; O.O. Howard, Major General, Commissioner- (Oliver Otis Howard, November 8, 1830-October 26, 1909, was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War); Thomas W Conway, Ass't Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, &c.; J.S. Fullerton, Brevet Brigadier General Volunteers; Max Woodhull, Colonel,Assistant Adjutant-General; Clinton B. Fisk. Brigadier General, Assistant Commissioner; Davis Tillson, Brig. Gen. Vols. and A.A. Comm'r; Charles Mundee, Assistant Adjutant General; R. Saxton, Brevet Major General, Assistant Commissioner; Joseph K. Barnes, M.D. (July 21, 1817 – April 5, 1883) was an American physician and the Surgeon General of the United States Army during and after the American Civil War; and Wager Swayne (November 10, 1834-December 18, 1902) was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Siege of Corinth. $200.00

[003156] . SCIENCE, February 6, 1885. Volume V. No. 105. ill. Figures(drawings), Engraving. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good to Good- Articles by Famous Americans: SIMON NEWCOMB "The Georgia wonder-girl and her lessons"; GEORGE M. STERNBERG "The 'comma bacillus' of Koch" with 2 illustrations; ERNEST INGERSOLL "Ingersoll's Country Cousins"; and F. A. P. BARNARD " Barnard's Pyramid of Gizeh". In Letters to the Editor, other Famous Americans: D. G. BRINTON and HENRY W. HAYNES "Anthropos and anthropopithecus"; and THEO. B. COMSTOCK " The Yellowstone Park as a bison preserve". Also includes article on "Nantucket Museum" with illustration; and "The Essex Deneholes" with 2 illustrations; Covers detached but "intact". 1 3/4" tear in middle of front cover-no text missing. Some chippings along edges. Mildly soiled. Exterior is Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG. $50.00

[003980] Galtsoff, Paul S., & R. H. Luce.. Oyster Investigations in Georgia.. ill. Foldout Maps, Figures (Photographs, Graphs). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1930. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9". Stiff Covers. Oysters. Very Good- Appendix V to Report of Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1930. Fisheries Document No. 1077. pp. 61-100 including Bibliography. 2 foldout maps. 23 illustrations. 5 tables. Mildly soiled covers. ex.mus. stamp on front cover. Vertical crease down the middle, as if folded. Otherwise covers are VG. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. : $10.00

[004068] House of Representatives. GEORGIA CLAIM-Monetary Reimbursement for Revolutionary Army Officers. ill. Table. 1839. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Disbound. Georgia. Very Good 25th Congress. 3d Session. Rep. No. 311. February 26, 1839. " The State of Georgia prays to be paid the full amount of principal and interest of a final-settlement certificate issued by John Pierce, paymaster general and commissioner of army accounts, on the 18th of May, 1785, to the State of Georgia, for $123,283 70, in reimbursement for payments made by that State to her officers of the revolutionary army on continental establishment, for commutation and other pay due to said officers." 13 pp. Important names in document: Matthew St. Clair Clarke (Clerk of the House of Representatives); Oliver Wolcott Jr.(appointed by President George Washington to be the 2nd Secretary of the Treasury. Wolcott was retained in office by President John Adams and Served from March 4, 1797 to December 31, 1800); and A. Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury. One page table: "The Georgia line in account current with the United States", listing pay and rations paid out. Disbound but intact. Very Good + condition. $45.00

[003896] Jackson, Henry R.. LETTER FROM HENRY R. JACKSON, OF GEORGIA, TO EX-SENATOR ALLEN G. THURMAN With Explanatory Papers. Atlanta, GA: V. P. Sisson, Printer, Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/4". Paper Wraps. Georgia. Good+ to Very Good- Preface by Henry Jackson "lists" 1887 as date. "The purpose of this pamphlet is to enable me to distribute correct copies of the following papers: 1. My remarks to the "Confederate Veterans," at Macom, October 26th. 2. My interview with an editor of the Atlanta CONSTITUTION, touching those remarks, published on the morning of October 29th. 3. The attack made upon me by Ex-Senator Thurman, at Columbus, Ohio, on the evening of November 6th. 4. My note, evoked by that attack, addressed to the Atlanta CONSTITUTION, Novermber 7th. 5. Judge Thurman's communication of November 10th to the Associated Press. 6. My open letter to him of the same date." 16 pp. ex-mus.numbers on front cover. Vertical crease down middle as if folded. Back cover's top corner missing, 1 1/4"x1 1/2". From pp.9-16 tear on top corners, 1 3/4". 4 pages under REMARKS AT MACON and INTERVIEW AT ATLANTA, some underscoring of specific words. Overall publication is Good+ to Very Good-. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good. (Henry Rootes Jackson was a Major General in the Georgia militia during the American Civil War. He graduated with honors from Yale University, where he was a member of Skull & Bones, in 1839. Before the war, he served as a lawyer, then as an officer in the Mexican American War, state judge, and as United States ambassador to Austria from 1854 - 1858. Enlisting in the Confederate army in 1861, he served as a judge in Confederate courts. Allen Granberry Thurman was a Democratic Representative and Senator from Ohio. In 1888, he was selected by Grover Cleveland as his Vice Presidential running mate, but the ticket lost to the Republicans.) ) $97.50

[002914] Smithsonian Annual Report. Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 51. ill. Plates, Figures, Tables. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Green Cloth. Good Contents: CALIFORNIA LAND SHELLS by Paul Bartsch. HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERS by E. Bergroth..COCCINELLID LARVAE by Adam Boving. KOREAN SORCERRESS, by I.M. Casanowicz. FOSSIL INSECTS by T.D.A. Cockerell, NEW SPECIES OF FORAMINIFERA FROM PHILIPPINE ...by Joseph Cushman. INVERTEBRATE FAUNA OF FLINT RIVER, GEORGIA, and MOLLUSKS...by William Healey Dall. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW LEPIDOPTERA, MEXICO by Harrison.Dyar.JAPANESE MACROUROID FISHES, collected by ALBATROSS 1906 by Charles Henry Gilbert. NORTH AMERICAN CHALCIDOID by A.A. Girault.ROTATIORIAN GENERA LEPADELLA AND LOPHOCHARIS...by Harry L. Harring. EXTINCT MAMMALS...TEXAS by Oliver P. Hay. PARASITIC ISOPOD CRUSTACEANS by W.P.Hays. LOWER JURASSIC FLORA, ALASKA by F. H. Knowlton. RED SPIDERS by E.A. McGregor. MOLLUSKS FROM CHOCTAWHATCHEE MARL, by Wendell C. Mansfield. PHILIPPINE ELEGANT TITMOUSE...by Edgar Alexander Mearns. METEORIC STONE FROM FLORIDA, IRON METEORITE FROM COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE and METEORIC IRONS FROM GEORGIA by George Merrill. WEEVILS by W. Dwight Pierce. WHITE FLIES by A.L. Quaintance and A.C. Baker. NEW ALASKAN MOLLUSK by Victor Sterki. MUSCOID FLIES by Charles Townsend. FOSSIL PLANTS FROM PENNSYLVANIA and NOTES ON ALUNITE, PSILOMELANITE AND TITANITE by Edgar T. Wherry and NEW BRACHIOPODS...MAINE by Henry Shaler Williams. 675 pps. Index. Plates, Figures and Tables. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Front cover has small scratches ? (silverfish?). Water stains to spine and top gutter with waviness to touch. Doesn't go through to interior. Otherwise covers intact and Good. Ex-lib.bookplate on front endpaper with numbers.. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $45.00

[004654] Thomas, Cyrus. CATALOGUE OF PREHISTORIC WORKS EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. ill. Plates, Maps. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Paper Wraps. Ethnology. Covers Poor. Interior Good+ Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology: J.W. Powell, Director. Signed on front cover "With Compliments of the Author". "Special efforts were made to locate definitely all ancient works, mounds, graves, pictographs, etc., including those to which only imcomplete and casual reference had been made by earlier travelers and writers. All the material thus obtained has been incorporated in the present volume." State by State, County by County list of "finds" for those states east of the Rocky Mountains. 16 states with Archeologic Maps. They are: Alabama; Arkansas (2-one of the state and another of Poinsett County, Arkansas); Florida (2-one of the state and another of Le Baron's map of Putnam, Volusia and Orange Counties, Florida); Georgia; Kentucky and Tennessee; Michigan; Missouri; New York; North Carolina; Ohio (2-one of the state and another of Butler County, Ohio); and Wisconsin (2-one of the state and another of Crawford County, Wisconsin). Includes a large foldout map, 15"x17" of the Distribution of Mounds in Eastern United States. 246 pp. String-tied. Missing back cover. Front cover detached and missing most of bottom half. Soiled. ex.mus. numbers. Cover is Poor. Top edges uncut. Side and bottom page edges untrimmed. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Scarce. $175.00